CORONAVIRUS may be a lot less deadly than was first thought as large-scale screening in Iceland suggested around half of those infected have had the disease without even realising.
The government department added: "Testing in the general population will continue to elicit a much clearer picture of the actual spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Iceland." This translates to just 0.41 per cent of the population swabbed and a fatality rate of around 0.12 per cent, notably higher than Iceland's.
Although many have observed that Iceland's small population has helped it to carry out wide-scale testing, Stefánsson disagrees. He noted: "It's nothing to do with the size of the population, this has to do with how well prepared it was [for the pandemic]." He told USAToday: "The smaller the population you have the more chance there is you will know someone who is affected.
I thought they just did frozen food
Try telling the families of the 10000+ that coronavirus is less deadly than we irst suspected, what a joke statement
This brings hope if a massive amount of people have already had it
How many tests did Tesco do
FO Sun. 10,000 dead you idiots. How much more deadly do you want it!
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